At the beginning of the day, I ate breakfast with my friends. By that I mean I actually just ate with them. They were all so mesmerized by these small screens that it was like I wasn’t there. I felt ignored as I tried to have a conversation and all 3 of my friends wouldn’t even look up from their cell phones. I didn’t like this. Plus, the sad part is I know I would have been doing the same exact thing if I had my phone. I didn’t know what to do besides just sit there and eat my food.

In one of the articles I read, “Stop Googling. Let’s talk.” it talked about how many individuals don’t really know how to make conversation anymore. They don’t know how to make eye contact or how body posture and the tone of your voice matters. It was in this situation that I realized this was true, I was trying to talk to my friends and if they did reply they would do so by saying something while continuing to look down at their phones. Like WHAT??? No, my eyes are up here. It’s called a conversation and it’s so sad to see that now a days many people don’t know how to have them.

It wasn’t until later that day at dinner that I told my friends to have a dinner where we didn’t go on our phones that they realized what a huge difference it made. They looked at me and were amazed at how I was able to do it for most of the day. I told them it wasn’t by choice haha- but because of it, I was going to make some changes.

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